JavaScript / JQuery: Fehler “Das Objekt unterstützt die Eigenschaft oder Methode addEventListener nicht”JavaScript / JQuery: Error “addeventlistener object doesn’t support this property or method”

This entry has been published on 2015-02-19 and may be out of date.

Last Updated on 2015-02-19.

This error might appear if you have developed a website in your local testing environment which uses JS utilities like Bootstrap, JQuery, Prototype or Scriptaculous, after you have published it e.g. to your local company intranet.

Cause

JQuery and similar utils don’t seem to like IE compatibility mode, which is enabled by default. Additionally, there might be some <meta> content missing.

Solution

In most cases the following line solves the problem. Insert it between your <head> tags.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

What you also can do is to disable compatibility mode for intranet sites in Internet Explorer. Open Settings -> Compatibility View settings -> uncheck the “intranet” checkbox.

4 Comments

Gael on 2016-06-28 at 08:04

Wow, I’ve been searching all day long to solve an issue I had with IE and Symfony. I don’t know exactly what this is doing, but the tag is working like a charm ! Thanks a lot !